However, washing your hands doesn’t require reading skills. And a lot of our food is imported.

Canada has had immigration for centuries…..it has never been a problem before.

Game birds are muscular, and lean and therefore stringy….and I always get the piece with some shot in it.

Pheasant under glass is plump and juicy.

I don’t know why you think game is safe to eat…..they get lots of diseases, even one equivalent to ‘mad cow’.

]]>By: truenorthfree2http://www.macleans.ca/general/on-wildlife-culls-engineering-the-landscape-and-our-misguided-soft-spot-for-bambi/#comment-1033511
Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:14:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=323927#comment-1033511Did you see the interviews with the people that worked on the floor of this plant, this is not a racist statement but the bleeding truth.

Everyone interviewed would be hard pressed to read at a level beyond grade 4 and even harder pressed to speak in complete sentences.

The truth hurts, but our immigration policies are killing us.

Oh and you must have had some pheasant under glass, my pheasant beats a coop bred chicken any day, much darker meat and less fat making it better for you, that and no bacterial contamination!!

]]>By: EmilyOnehttp://www.macleans.ca/general/on-wildlife-culls-engineering-the-landscape-and-our-misguided-soft-spot-for-bambi/#comment-1033509
Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:00:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=323927#comment-1033509I’m quite serious. It’s a hunter/gatherer pastime, and we are thousands of years away from living like that.

I have eaten venison and game birds……and if you prefer that to domestically raised meat you have a taste problem.

But then how else would you get your racism into this post, eh?

]]>By: truenorthfree2http://www.macleans.ca/general/on-wildlife-culls-engineering-the-landscape-and-our-misguided-soft-spot-for-bambi/#comment-1033507
Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:09:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=323927#comment-1033507Yes and their is no turning back this tide, it will crush the earth’s resources soon enough and then the abundance of food here will turn to a shortage like that never seen in man’s short time on earth.
]]>By: truenorthfree2http://www.macleans.ca/general/on-wildlife-culls-engineering-the-landscape-and-our-misguided-soft-spot-for-bambi/#comment-1033505
Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:06:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=323927#comment-1033505Are you serious?

Should we also ban having your own garden and doing any of your own work around the house?

There is nothing better than the game birds or deer meat harvested by your own hand, and as an additional bonus you do not have to worry that some wetback immigrant that cannot read and write english has not cleaned his hands and will kill you will a dose of e-coli or salmonella.

]]>By: EmilyOnehttp://www.macleans.ca/general/on-wildlife-culls-engineering-the-landscape-and-our-misguided-soft-spot-for-bambi/#comment-1033503
Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:45:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=323927#comment-1033503We shouldn’t have anyone still so poor in Canada that they have to hunt their food
]]>By: Gerryhttp://www.macleans.ca/general/on-wildlife-culls-engineering-the-landscape-and-our-misguided-soft-spot-for-bambi/#comment-1033501
Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:30:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=323927#comment-1033501Or we could let bears, cougars, and wolves re-expand their territory and population bacto what it was 200 years ago. Oh right, no we can’t because it would wreck havoc with cattle production. If we want to be able to continue raising farm animals as we do, those predator populations must remain suppressed and the deer managed by other means.
]]>By: Marciehttp://www.macleans.ca/general/on-wildlife-culls-engineering-the-landscape-and-our-misguided-soft-spot-for-bambi/#comment-1033499
Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:24:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=323927#comment-1033499If they eat the deer, it’s not just for fun. It’s for food too.
]]>By: EmilyOnehttp://www.macleans.ca/general/on-wildlife-culls-engineering-the-landscape-and-our-misguided-soft-spot-for-bambi/#comment-1033497
Sun, 30 Dec 2012 03:45:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=323927#comment-1033497You are a very tiny group.

Shooting animals for fun is sooo last century.

]]>By: reality checkhttp://www.macleans.ca/general/on-wildlife-culls-engineering-the-landscape-and-our-misguided-soft-spot-for-bambi/#comment-1033495
Sat, 29 Dec 2012 18:21:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=323927#comment-1033495The true “overpopulation” is humans not animals.
]]>By: Sully99http://www.macleans.ca/general/on-wildlife-culls-engineering-the-landscape-and-our-misguided-soft-spot-for-bambi/#comment-1033493
Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:14:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=323927#comment-1033493Ken MacQueen’s comment about hunting being a ‘social pariah’ in Canada says more about Ken or who he hangs out with. He is probably a good example of Jim Sterba’a whole thesis. Here in Ontario (an hour from Ottawa) for two weeks every November thousands of deer hunters including myself are hunting deer in what we feel is a fun and productive manner in that we respect and use this natural resource.
]]>By: briguyhfxhttp://www.macleans.ca/general/on-wildlife-culls-engineering-the-landscape-and-our-misguided-soft-spot-for-bambi/#comment-1033491
Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:59:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=323927#comment-1033491I don’t know who the author speaks with in BC, but hunters are certainly not social pariahs where I live. Everyone looks forward to the arrival of venison roasts and moose chili.

The problem is one borne more of suburbia than out of a lack of tolerance for hunting. If you build a new subdivision in bear country, it’s likely that a few bears will end up wandering back into that subdivision. If you have to commute for an hour each way because you want to live in a remote bedroom community, you increase your odds of encountering wildlife on the highway over a person who commutes 15 minutes within a town or city (especially if they use transit).

]]>By: CrescentHeightsGuyhttp://www.macleans.ca/general/on-wildlife-culls-engineering-the-landscape-and-our-misguided-soft-spot-for-bambi/#comment-1033489
Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:37:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=323927#comment-1033489That’s “Invermere”. Not Inverness.
And yes, suburban deer should be rounded up every fall and turned into hamburger.
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